But the eagle was very angry, and he leaped up from the table, laid hold on the Tsar and flew, yet farther. So they flew and flew, and the eagle said to the Tsar, “Look, what is there behind us?”
So the Tsar turned round and looked, and said, “Behind us there is a beauteous house.”
Then the eagle said to him, “It is the house of my youngest sister that glitters: she would not receive you, but gave you for food to the fleet hounds.”
So they flew and flew on, and the eagle asked him again, “Look, Tsar my master, what is there over us, and what under us?”
“Over us the sky and under us the earth.”
“Look, what is there on the right-hand, and what is there on the left?”
“On the right-hand side there is the open field, and on the left-hand side there stands a house.”
“There my younger sister lives; we will fly there and be her guests.”
So they came down to the open courtyard, and the younger sister came and received her brother, and she seated him on an oaken stool, but she left the Tsar in the courtyard, and she released the fleet hounds on him.
And the eagle was angry, leaped up from the table, laid hold on the Tsar and flew with him yet farther; and they flew on and on, and the eagle said to the Tsar, “Look, what is there behind us?”